If you see mirror you see the best creation of God
Kishore Shintre
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The basic recurring theme in Hindu mythology is the creation of the world by the self-sacrifice of God—"sacrifice" in the original sense of "making sacred"—whereby God becomes the world which, in the end, becomes again God. This creative activity of the Divine is called Leela, the play of God, and the world is seen as the stage of the divine play. Like most of Hindu mythology, the myth of Leela has a strong magical flavour. Brahman is the great magician who transforms himself into the world and then performs this feat with his "magic creative power", which is the original meaning of maya in the Rig Veda.
The word maya—one of the most important terms in Indian philosophy—has changed its meaning over the centuries. From the might, or power, of the divine actor and magician, it came to signify the psychological state of anybody under the spell of the magic play. As long as we confuse the myriad forms of the divine Leela with reality, without perceiving the unity of Brahman underlying all these forms, we are under the spell of maya. In the Hindu view of nature, then, all forms are relative, fluid and ever-changing maya, conjured up by the great magician of the divine play.
The world of maya changes continuously, because the divine Leela is a rhythmic, dynamic play. The dynamic force of the play is karma, an important concept of Indian thought. Karma means "action". It is the active principle of the play, the total universe in action, where everything is dynamically connected with everything else. In the words of Shrimad Bhagwad Gita "Karma is the force of creation, where from all things have their life".
Start by looking for what God loves in your neighbor. Look for how God's love comes, or could come, through your neighbor. Have compassion for all impediments to that love. Love your neighbor and see God in who you love. Remember your enemy is your neighbor and you will grasp how love binds us all guilty and innocent alike until guilt is less important than compassion and need. Serve the need and directly love God in that action. Then God needs no mirror. God loves through you. Your love is God's eyes on the creation before you. When you love, all creation is God's mirror. And yes, then you will be a mirror of God in the person who loves you.
And there is this Sukta in the RigVeda (X-CXC-III):
sooryachandramasou dhaataa yathaapoorvamakalpayat
divam cha prithiveem cha antariksham atho suvah
“Dhataa (four headed Brahma, the creator), created the sun, moon, dyus, earth, space and heavens exactly as it was before (in the previous cycle).” Adding to this the idea of ankekakoti-brahmandas (several million universes) mentioned in the puranas, and all of them controlled by a single Entity, we may, perhaps, conjecture that they bear a similar or slightly differing geometric and behavioural congruence to each other. Though there is a vast diversity among Indian philosophical systems regarding metaphysics, the essential Vedantic method of all the prevalent schools is to focus within - on the Self, or soul.
Even the dualistic-realistic schools of Vedanta recognise an ‘innermost soul’ - Paramatman upon which the attention is diverted. Any amount of cosmology is of no help in that regard. Trying to fit Indian philosophy / ‘mythology’ into the frame of the discoveries of modern scientific cosmology serves no purpose as far as the final aim of the Vedantic schools - liberation - is concerned. Such exercises are futile. At the best, they just draw some fancy, feeble parallels, and end there.
Shrimad Bhagwatam — Lord Brahma prays to Kanhaji and and says that infinite number of universes containing entire cosmos pass through each pore of Lord Krishna’s body. What am I, a small creature measuring seven spans of my own hand? I am enclosed ink a pot like universe composed of material nature, the total material energy, false ego, ether, air, water and earth. And what is Your glory? Infinite universes pass through the pores of Your body just as particles of dust pass through the openings of a screened window.
Shree Ramcharitmanas — Lord Rama revealed his vishwaroop to Mother Kausalya . Each pore of Lord's body had millions and billions of universes “The Lord then revealed to his mother his marvellous infinite form, every pore of whose skin contained millions and billions of universes. She saw therein countless suns and moons, Shivas and four-faced Brahmas, and a number of mountains, rivers, oceans, plains and woods, as well as the spirit of time, the principle of action,
The modes of Prak?ti (Sattva, Rajas and Tamas), the spirit of knowledge and Nature and many more things of which she had never heard before . She further beheld Māyā, who is powerful in every respect, yet stricken with terror and standing with her palms joined together to supplicate Lord. The mother also beheld Jiva the embodied soul, who is made to dance by Māyā, and even so Bhakti-devi the spirit of devotion which liberates the soul.”
Skanda Purana — There was a powerful demon Soorpdhaman who had conquered 1008 universes. Lord Kartikeya easily defeated Soorpdhaman and spared his life. Soorpdhaman also sent all his armies from 1008 universes but Lord Kartikeya killed them all in no time and destroyed all illusory forms of Soorpdhaman with his arrows. At last Lord Kartikeya given him the divine vision of his Vishwaroop in which his body contained crores of brahmandas/universes and all those 1008 universes of soorpdhaman were contained in a single hair of leg of Lord Kartikeya.
"Skanda is not a child, as I ignorantly thought; he is none other than Paramesvara. He has fought a fierce war effortlessly, exterminated my army, took away Indra's chariot from me and destroyed the various forms of Maya I took. He has shown me His Visvarupa out of grace; this form is unparalleled, having on its body the Devas, Asuras, humans and crores of Brahmandas. Pride of wealth and suzerainty prevented me from listening to the sane words of my brother Simhamukha and son Bhanukopa. He is the embodiment of everything,as I am able to see right before my eyes.
I had slighted him as a small boy, all along. He is God Almighty. He is none else than the God whom I adore, a great spectacle on the peacock mount. My 1008 universes have been contained in one hair on his leg. I have had the privilege of seeing His Visvarupa from head to foot. Still I am not satisfied; desire to keep seeing increases. Due to my tapas I could see this divine form. I experience bhakti welling in my heart; I feel like circumambulating and prostrating before Him and praising him. ~ Skanda Mahapurana. Jay Shri Krishna
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2 年Great post Baba. It's so very True experience towards pure bhakti and increase in visualising the extreme almighty . Jai shree krishna
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